I made a $10,000 Commercial in 12 Hours Using Blender 

you explained it better than I ever could! I do agree with people that you can’t just run out into the marketplace and easily charge 10k for an animation like this (especially not the exact one from the video, as I had to cut a lot of corners to stay in the 12 hour time limit) but it 1000% is possible as I already had similar projects with this kind of budget. Love the comparison you brought up of working with agencies and how much people pay to work with those - really shows how much some people/ businesses are actually willing & able to pay for nearly the same type of work. Thank you so much for taking the time to write this feedback!! 🧡🙏🏼⚡️

@@ioannis_h Nice work and super nice editing. I couldn't agree more with Derek. Price isn't always about quality, it's more about communication skills and setting clear goals. A clean and simple animation with a good product behind it can way outperform an over-the-top 100k animation from a studio with a bad product.

Hi, Derek. You seems to have a very high opinion about this product animation. Do you mean all you say, even though there is some rather glaring issues like the shape inside the joysticks changing from one shot to another(11:24 and both before & after that) and the switch on the side 11:17 not having a hole (and likely a material assigned) for it?

cause it did 😏🤞🏼

On my mission to deliver value packed videos for your enjoyment 🫡🧡 Glad you liked it my friend!

Thank you so much for taking the time and leaving this feedback! 🧡 I've got a lot of similar feedback and realised that I have to be more clear in my explanation when it comes to the pricing. Of course this project wasn't fine tuned at all as I had the 12 hour limit which made me cut a lot of corners. And of course, as you already stated - clients, revisions & maybe more complicated products & features. I'll make sure to be more clear in upcoming episodes, thanks again!! 🤝

I think the texture is needing a lot of improvement as well. I really like the animation and the final outcome is better than anything I could do, but the texture looks a little to perfect.

You're right, I'd pay more than 10,000

Nah this was very good. I can see it being worth $75,000

​@@ioannis_h just change the title now, it's not that complicated.

Much appreciated!! 🧡🧡🧡 Will do my best 🫡

inserted a lil forearm workout into the mix 😏 Cheers mate! 🧡

Here to provide as much value as possible! 🧡⚡️🙏🏼

thank you so much!! 🧡🧡

Much appreciated my G 🧡🧡 Many more to come :)

Much appreciated my man 🧡🧡

So nice to hear! 🧡🤝 Thank you for leaving the feedback my friend 😌🙏🏼

Much appreciated! 🧡🧡 will do my best 🫡

That’s great to hear!! ⚡️ Thank you for the feedback 🤝🧡

Oh man I looooove unpacking apple products - the way you just described that… gotta get a new iPhone soon 😮‍💨 So great to hear you enjoyed the video!! 🧡🧡

Cheers my G 🧡🧡🧡

Lessgooo!! 🧡🧡🧡 Much appreciated my G 🥳🥳

ay man thank you so much 🥹🧡🧡

Thank you man! 🧡 Appreciate the feedback 😌🙏🏼

Thank you so much mein Freund 🥹🧡🧡

I’m betting on it! 🎉

Yeah had to cut some corners here and there but got there in the end 😌🧡🤝

Much appreciated 🧡🧡🧡

That‘s exactly what I want to achieve with my videos!! 🧡🧡 Excited to see what you will create my friend 😌🤝⚡️

Thank you so much my G 😌🙏🏼🧡

Thanks my man 🥹🧡

Thanks a lot my man 🥹🧡

Much appreciated my G 🧡🧡🧡

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An expert I see 😏🤝🧡

thanks a lot my man 🥹 trying my best 🧡🧡

@@ioannis_h sorry man if u don’t mind me asking. How long have you been on blender? I just started a couple of days ago and it’s pretty difficult lol.

thank you so much!! 🥹🧡

Thank you so much for taking the time to write your feedback! 🧡 Much appreciated!! 🥹🙏🏼

Then I fulfilled my mission⚡️🧡 So glad to hear you enjoyed the video!

So great to hear my friend! 🧡 I'll do my best to keep it up 🫡

Thank you so much my man!! 🧡🧡

will do my brother! 🫡

Thank you my man! 🥹🧡 Already working on the next videos 🫡

Thank you so much mate! 🧡🤝

ich danke dir Bro! Wirklich much appreciated 🧡🧡 Ich bleib dran 🥹⚡️

What a compliment 🥹🧡🤝 Thank you kind Sir!

That’s what I call dedication 🥹🧡 Much appreciated!! 🙏🏼

Already working on the next one 👨🏼‍🔬🧡

Thanks a lot!! 😌🙏🏼🧡

Many more to come 😏🤫🧡

Great to hear my friend!! 🧡🤝

nahhhh keep the camera and document your journey! You can do both 😌🧡⚡️

Much appreciated!! 🧡😌🤝

Much appreciated my man 😌🙏🏼🧡

Ay man thank you for your comment! Great to you hear that you enjoyed the video 🧡

please do ⚡️🧡 Excited to see you what you can come up with 😏

So glad to hear you enjoyed the video! 😌🙏🏼🧡

Cause its a new channel, why is this concept so hard for people to understand. XD

They‘ll have their reasons 🥲🧡 Thanks for the feedback!! 🙏🏼

Thanks a lot my brother 🧡🧡

and thanks again for taking the time to give me detailed and constructive feedback on the animation! Yeah it was really a challenge to know what to focus on so I could get it done in under 12 hours ⚡️ Always trying to improve 😌🧡

you mean like more detailed breakdowns? 🫡🧡

@@ioannis_h yeah if you would like to. You can even upload to skillshare. That would be really helpful

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Thanks. 🧡

cheers mate 🥹🧡

Thanks for the feedback my G 🧡 You would‘ve went with a clean white one or what did you have in mind? 😌

@@ioannis_h No worries, and yeah, either that or something more neutral and darker/lighter. Just my preference.

good shout!

you’re welcome my friend! 🤝🧡⚡️

thanks my G 🥹🧡

ay man thank you so much for the feedback! 🧡 Really means a lot that people notice the details I put in the video :)

Much appreciated my friend!! 🤝🧡

I guess it kind of depends on two things: 1. How long is the animation - If the animation is over 20-30 seconds long in my opinion it gets a bit boring without music 2. What your skillset in sound-design/ your budget for the project looks like. If you‘re only going to use sfx as the audio it will have to carry the whole audio side of things, so it‘s gotta be good 😏 Thank you for your comment my friend 😌🙏🏼🧡

I really don’t think these donut tutorials are the best way to start out - as they are sadly, pretty boring. I can recommend finding something you actually want to recreate and look up the needed tutorials for that 🙏🏼 If you do that a few times you‘ll gather a looot of knowledge 😌🧡 Best of luck with your endeavours and don’t give up! ⚡️⚡️

@@ioannis_h Exactly. I know this but then fall into the same aul trap of tutorial this or that. All of them have been equally slow and painfully dull and distracting. I've picked up pixel art by doing a '30' day self imposed challenge and I know 3D won't quite work like that, but will definitely take your advice on board, plus a healthy dose of wax on wax off. PS Keep up the content, can't wait to see more!

That sounds like a great approach! Set goals for yourself that are little bit out of your skill zone and force yourself to learn the required skills ⚡️

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waaa I was waiting for someone to point that out! I can tell you got an eye for this stuff - tbf I left the joystick issue as it kinda looked like it was supposed to be one of those „grip increasing bumps“ they have on these. But yeah, anyone in the industry can tell that’s a bug 😮‍💨 Devil is in the detail! 🔍😏🧡

@@ioannis_h anyways it's greate model I don't have the patience to stay 12 hours on a single project 😅 keep up man you're doing really good

Much appreciated!! 😌🙏🏼🧡

thanks my G! 🧡

Up until a few weeks ago I used concierge render but they sadly closed their services down. I now switched to GarageFarm 😌🙏🏼🧡

Tausend Dank!! 🥹🧡

First off, thank you so much for the feedback my friend! 🧡🤝 Regarding your questions: 1. Perfectionism - I don’t see this at a problem at all! Clients will see that you out in the extra work to fine tune the animation as much as possible. Small little details do matter! Of yourself you should try to keep it in the scope of the project (budget & workload wise) and also keep in mind what the animation will be used for. This will help you determine how much detail will even be noticeable for the use case. 2. Missing Ideas - If you struggle with finding the right ideas you need to look at more animations and artwork in your spare time. You should also, as I did in the video for example, have 1-2 reference animations that are very close to what you want to create. So every time you‘re stuck you can rewatch those and gather some new inspiration off that. But I think my first suggestion is even more important, the more animations and just creative material you consume in general will help you massively to come up with ideas by yourself! Hope you I could give you some stuff to think about 🧡🧡⚡️

@@ioannis_h Thanks for the advice! i will keep this in mind and try to create something.

I‘ve got the M3 with the best components besides RAM (which is 64gb) and Memory (which is 2TB) Runs like a charm but is very pricy. Anything upwards from the M1 Series will do you just finde even with Blender 🙏🏼🧡

@@ioannis_h because I was thinking between the Asus rog g16 rtx 4060 with 32gb ram and M1 Pro or M1 Max which would be a better option?

uhh I‘m not sure if I‘m the right person to give you an accurate response to that. I chose the macbook for a lot of different reasons besides the specs as well - I‘m travelling a lot so I needed something I can easily set up everywhere. A lot of people will tell you that you can get better specs for the same money you would spend on the MacBook. Can‘t really give you an accurate answer to that sorry :/

I actually inserted that whole animation in post production 😅 So sadly nothing I can provide good Sir 🥲

Thank you so much for the feedback! Yeah kept it simple on the texturing part 🤫🧡

Thank you so much for the constructive feedback! I definitely see what you mean, as I don’t do product animations that often, input like this is really helpful 🧡🤝

a day for the books 🥹🧡

Church choir 🤫

I'll make a video about how to get clients soon - I'll showcase multiple sources in there! 🤝🧡

thanks my man 🥹🧡🧡

@@ioannis_h lets go it hit 5kviews and 500 subs waiting for your next video

Already working on it 😮‍💨⚡️🧡

Thank you so much for leaving your feedback! 🙏🏼🙏🏼 The main focus of these videos is to show people that you can create cool portfolio pieces with not too much hassle, so I always try to keep the models themselves as simple as possible and focus more on the creative aspect. I of course agree with all the points you made, some of them are just not worth putting the time in as it’s more about inspiring people to create something than to deliver a 100% fine tuned model. I hope you see where I‘m coming from 🙏🏼 Thanks again for the detailed feedback my G 🧡 Always trying to improve!

@@ioannis_h I'm sure you could've been able to stop this stuff yourself if not for time limit. >The main focus of these videos is to show people that you can create cool portfolio pieces >some of them are just not worth putting the time >it’s more about inspiring people to create something than to deliver a 100% fine tuned model. But I can' fully agree with this. If you wanted to just inspire people to do some stuff by showing how it doesn't take much time and effort to do finished product, you didn't needed to talk about this being a portfolio or production ready piece with rather precise (and rather sizable) price estimate. For a person like myself, who is thinking about trying his hands at product animation the question of how polished the final portfolio & client work pieces is very important thing. And the video like that leaves me very confused. Yes, it does inspire me to do stuff myself & finish my WIP product design animation, but it leaves me in question. Should I really invest my time in practicing the profession and can i compete with other people? Because if it is a real market situation there is huge price dumping championship just around the corner, once "AI" will be able to pump out a half decent storyobards.

Much appreciated!! 🙏🏼🧡🧡

Thank you so much! 🧡 I've been doing video editing and graphic design since I was 14 but I really started getting into Blender about 4 years ago 🙏

⁠that’s cool

yeah bit of a stretch mate I give you that

@@ioannis_h its fine though you're gonna destroy this in like a month

Cheers mate 🧡🧡

love using AI to create references - helps you stay on your path ⚡️ I just rendered a 3D Animation out with the scene as a reference image for the angle 🤫

@@ioannis_h pretty clever

@@GilliganTF2 thanks my G 🧡

Thanks a lot mate! 🧡 Maybe soon 🥹🤞🏼

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1M would be craaaazy

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Thanks a lot 🥹🧡🧡

Had some people request a video for that topic as well so I‘m going to make soon 🫡🧡 Stay tuned brother ⚡️

you mean go more in depth on the separate steps? My videos are more for inspiration and a rough guideline on how to do things - I‘m working on a course though that will go into detail so stay tuned ⚡️🫡🧡

Thanks a lot for the feedback my G 🧡 Personally I‘m not that big of a fan of tutorial type videos but I‘m working on a course atm 🤫

10k is a bit of a stretch tbf - and I had to cut some corners because of the time limit but 3-5k is easily doable to the right clients. If you do this as client work remember that you will have revisions as well which drives the whole work load up a lot. Any you would have to analyse the actual product to remodel it, I just designed myself which kept it simple 😌🤝 Thank you so much for the feedback and your input my G ⚡️🫡

Ngl I‘d buy that thing myself 😪🧡

Thank you so much for leaving your feedback and personal experience! I can recommend checking out the pinned comment, think that explains it pretty well 🙏🏼

@@ioannis_h thank you for answering and I'm sorry if it was too rude.

No worries at all! I understand that pricing is a sensitive topic so I‘m trying to give as much insight to my estimations as possible 😌🙏🏼

100% agree! I had to cut some corners regarding the time limit of 12 hours so a lot of stuff would need more fine tuning. I do think it would still be more around 3-4k as you have to keep in mind that an actual project like this will take significantly more time when working with a client. You would have to analyse the product to remodel it, get the exact textures right and don’t forget all of the revisions etc. Hope you see where I‘m coming from 😌🤝🧡 Thank you so much for leaving your feedback!!

@@ioannis_h I get what you mean. Thank you for letting us get an idea of the pricing to charge clients.

Thank you brother 🥹🧡 Keeping it up for you! ⚡️